Chupris: Women play a significant role in the development of Belarusian science

On September 25, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus launched the first Forum of Women Scientists “The Role of Women in Science and Education”. The organizers are the Belarusian Union of Women, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Ministry of Education, the Minsk City and Regional Executive Committees. The event is included in the list of events for the implementation of the Year of the Belarusian Woman, approved by the Council of Ministers. The plenary session of the forum was attended by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Republic of Belarus Olga Chupris. Details are reported by the correspondent sb.by.

Olga Chupris noted:

- The forum brought together those who, with their talent, hard work and loyalty to the vocation, enrich domestic and world science every day. Not surprisingly, the modern world is impossible without a woman’s view of science, and the significant role of women in society and science is recognized at the highest level. “There are no heights that you, Belarusians, would not reach,” these are the words of our President. Belarusian women scientists have already proved that they can handle any tasks – from basic space research and the development of unique medicines to the formation of a doctrine of a strong social policy.

- It is also important that you not only make complex discoveries, manage research teams, but also carefully transfer your experience to young people, educate a new generation of Belarusian scientists, Olga Chupris addressed the forum participants. About 40 percent of researchers in our country are women. One in five women researchers is a young scientist – a huge intellectual resource.

According to Olga Chupris, the key feature of women’s activity is a harmonious combination of strict logic and sensitive intuition, deep knowledge, warmth, large-scale discoveries and care for loved ones.

- These qualities help in finding non-standard solutions for creating technologies that ultimately serve a person. In addition, actively engaged in science, you are at the same time the keepers of the hearth and loving daughters and mothers. All this is the contribution of women scientists to ensuring the security and independence of our state, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration emphasized.

- Today, women scientists at the forum will discuss a number of topical problems of artificial intelligence and space exploration, digitalization, biomedicine and biotechnology, humanitarian, socio-political and other spheres of public life. I am sure that your research and teaching experience will find a wide response, and your students and followers will borrow not only knowledge, but also an example of serving science and their country.

The main goal of the forum is to unite and actualize the role of women in science, demonstrate and popularize the contribution of scientific works of women to the implementation of the tasks of socio-economic development of the state, as well as attract young people to various fields of scientific and scientific and pedagogical activities. The NAS today is holding a plenary session of the forum. Thematic sections are also planned at the Academy of Sciences and the Belarusian State University. Among them are “Life in Details: Biomedicine and Biotechnology”, where representatives of the scientific community will make presentations, “Materials of the Future and Technology”, “Digital Universe”, “Digital Progress without Moral Degradation: The Role of the Humanities”, “Social Sciences: the Foundation of Sustainable Life”, “Young Women in Science: Contribution to Science and Prospects for Strengthening the National Economy”. More than half of all NASB researchers are women